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     <<I just bought a Packard Bell Pentium 150mhz with 24 meg RAM. The
frame rate in my CD-ROM version of Nascar is about 5 fps. That is with
only car textures and skids/paint turned on. The opponents are set to
11. Any more the frame rate drops. And I can only run 4 ahead, 2 behind,
and 1 heard, any more the frame rate will drop even more. If I swith to
VGA mode it only goes to about 7 fps. Please help!! Do I need a new
graphics card?>>

     Yow! Man, you must be suffering from some pretty rude migraines
h-a-v-i-n-g t-o p-l-a-y- t-h-e g-a-m-e l-i-k-e t-h-i-s. Before anyone
makes suggestions concerning your card (heck, even a cheesy Cirrus Logic
card with 1mb DRAM could do better on a DX2 66) what card do you have
now? Are you playing from straight DOS? I may be barking up the wrong
tree though because your current hardware is more than enough to run the
game perfectly in SVGA.
     Nick
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I just bought a Packard Bell Pentium 150mhz with 24 meg RAM. The frame rate in my
CD-ROM version of Nascar is about 5 fps. That is with only car textures and
skids/paint turned on. The opponents are set to 11. Any more the frame rate drops.
And I can only run 4 ahead, 2 behind, and 1 heard, any more the frame rate will
drop even more. If I swith to VGA mode it only goes to about 7 fps. Please help!! Do
I need a new graphics card?
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|  Mark Light      ---  Mark's Nascar Page                                 |

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1st Clue !! Packard Bell

If your playing in Win95.....Stop! Go to MS-DOS mode, not the Dos Prompt in
95

says...

Some of the PB models don't have any Level-2 Cache.  This will cause
horrible performance in games.  make sure you DO have this cache.
If you don't see if you can get an upgrade.

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Lannie Schafroth